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Photo credit: Scott Webb by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Today is Earth Day. This year’s theme, "Planet vs. Plastics," isn’t particularly relevant to noise but the idea of protecting the environment by working towards a quieter world is an ecologically...
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The first Earth Day took place exactly 52 years ago, April 22, 1970. The environmental movement was still in its infancy, kickstarted by Rachel Carson’s 1962 New Yorker article Silent Spring, which was published as a book...
Yet another Earth Day has passed, but this one marked by silence and solitude. David Sykes wonders if the silence wrought by the pandemic will open environmentalists’ ears to the dangers of noise.